Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , many of the securities supposedly backing the receipts did not exist or had not been purchased . |
| 2 | ‘ Nothing much we did n't know or had n't guessed , apart from on the human side . |
| 3 | Merlini , three attempts were made to serve documents on a defendant in Italy , trying three different addresses and two different names ; on each occasion the defendant could not be located or had already moved on . |
| 4 | Moreover , recent surveys have suggested that not so many members of these societies are ‘ literate ’ by the standards expected than had previously been assumed : in the UK it is now held that over one million people have an acquaintance with literacy that is insufficient for the demands made on them by this kind of society ( DES , 1980 ) . |
| 5 | Soon thereafter the force lines untwisted — rather like a tangle of elastic bands that had suddenly been released — and matters progressed as normal until , after a further 11 years … |
| 6 | The need for speed meant that the training packs were based on information drafts that had not yet been passed by Parliament , let alone checked , so inevitably errors crept in . |
| 7 | ‘ the manufacturer had known that the fuel tank on its subcompact Pinto was defectively designed and had consciously decided to proceed with production in spite of the potential hazards . |
| 8 | Did n't know and had n't wanted to ! |
| 9 | It applied equally to the Galapagos Archipelago where the ancestors of Darwin 's finches had on arrival resolutely stuck to their islands and refused to travel short distances across water to interbreed and had consequently evolved into thirteen distinct species . |
| 10 | It is alleged that Mr Buckley was severely injured in the explosion and that Sutherland knew he was trapped and had not told the emergency services that anyone was in the blazing house . |
| 11 | He had called it " unconstitutional " only on Aug. 21 , and claimed that he had resigned and had not been dismissed . |
| 12 | The rest of the room was sparsely decorated and had only two wooden-backed chairs and a small steel-legged table . |
| 13 | Too young to have been inoculated themselves , the babies had caught the disease from their older brothers and sisters who could have been inoculated but had not been . |
| 14 | Daphne 's first suggestion was Alchemilla mollis , or lady 's mantle , a plant I already grow but had never thought of cutting . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't you think that had more to do with the World Council of nations assuming power and nationalising religion … ? ’ |
| 16 | In 1954 , for example , Galton and Simpson created Hancock 's Half Hour on radio : satirical playlets about the pale squalor of outer-suburban life that launched a series of tiny exercises in comic realism to replace the music-hall turns that had once dominated the BBC Light Programme : an earthy , irreverent spirit of realistic comedy translated into visual terms in 1960 , when Granada TV started Coronation Street as a comic reflection , for mass audiences , of back-street life in the urban North . |
| 17 | Considering this question , with some surprise Robbie realised that had never been her aim — until she 'd met Fen Marshall . |
| 18 | But Beatrice complained sadly that she had nothing to wear that had n't been seen a hundred times . |
| 19 | In seven cases there was acknowledged to have been a deterioration in the dependant 's condition , so that the principal carer accepted or had even requested institutional care . |
| 20 | Sick with longing for his wife , Diana , and worn out with the public issues of doctoring that had apparently lost her to him , he had agreed . |
| 21 | The letter was written in a sprawling hand , writing that had once undergone the discipline of copperplate , but long ago broken loose from its restrictions and now spread , thick and unguarded , over the page . |
| 22 | The woman columnist at the Star argued that the judge as a man had no real understanding of what the girls had suffered and had unjustifiably let the youths off lightly with seven-year and three-year prison sentences . |
| 23 | I remembered that I had promised to see her about some poems she had written and had nervously asked me to read . |
| 24 | Repairs too , would be another hazard to face , but the structure was sturdily built and had always been well maintained . |
| 25 | Its Royal Horticultural Society Gardeners ' Encyclopaedia Of Gardening cost £2.5 million to create and had over 100 editors working on it . |
| 26 | I 'd have told Jamie as much , too , if I 'd been able to talk and had n't been concentrating on putting one foot in front of the other . |
| 27 | Their day , however , had not been that good ; they had put in many hours of searching and had only made two finds of any note . |
| 28 | She stressed that her client only knew of the cockroach problem the day before the complaint was made and had immediately bought powder to rid the restaurant of the insects . |
| 29 | She tried to resist but had n't the strength . |
| 30 | Although I had ‘ backed up ’ on a floppy disc from the computer I lost both floppy and hard disc record on Friday ( yes 13th ) and it was all my address list — twenty pages this size of single line entries and with just a double space between As and Bs and Cs and Ds etc. ; I could have wept but had instead to laugh — only thing to do and a mistake or combination of same that I shall NOT make again . |